Arugula is your typical teenage girl trying to fit in at a new school. But she doesn't just feel like an alien...she is one. Toss roller derby, budding sexuality and salad into the mix and saving the human race has never been more complicated. This brand new comedy explores what it means to be human from the perspective of one who is not.

Join us for our Spring Teaser! A workshop production of The Pretty Girl Basket Toss written and directed by our own Rebekah Suellau!

When the captain of the varsity squad fails to make the Homecoming Court, the social structure of Betton Hills High threatens to crumble in the span of a single cheerleading practice. Cheerleaders meet Othello via Bertolt Brecht.

Join us at the Midtown Players Club in Colony Square, Suite 513, April 1-3 and 7-8.

Julie and Rebekah are co-directing the reading of "Space Girl" by Mora V. Harris for the Alliance's Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition Week! Join us in the Alliance's 3rd Floor Blackbox for this delightful play and support up-and-coming playwrights! And it's free with RSVP: alliancetheatre.org/offstage or 404-733-5000.

ATLANTA, GA – Playwright Lauren Gundersonsaid that any theatre company, group, or person who wants to do a reading of The Taming – A New Political Comedy (The Taming) on Inauguration Day 2017 can do so for FREE – so The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, Synchronicity Theatre, and 7 Stages have “elected” to take her up on her offer!

If you aren’t marching on Washington, or making a quick escape to Canada, join us on Friday, January 20 at 7:00pm at 7 Stages Theatre to see a FREE staged reading of Gunderson’s modern, political satire that “takes the sass, sex and banter of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and tags in American politics.” $10 suggested donation to go to the ACLU. Cash preferred at the door.

A crackling modern political farce, The Tamingtakes on America’s overheated political rhetoric and upends historical truths about our founding fathers. When a conservative senatorial aid, a liberal political activist, and a very sparkly beauty queen find themselves locked in a hotel room, the political passions of these slightly insane women prove they might just be revolutionary geniuses. Inside the heightened, cheerfully absurd world of The Taming, Gunderson spanks America’s sound bite politics with the switch of actual history, and proves Shakespeare’s point that true debate is hot.

Staged Reading of The Taming – A New Political ComedyBrought to you by The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, Synchronicity Theatre, and 7 Stages

January 20, 2017

By Lauren Gunderson

7 Stages Mainstage Theatre

CAST

Tiffany Morgan as Patricia

Rachel Frawley as Bianca

Caroline Arapoglou as Katherine

Chelcy Cutwright as Voices

Directed by Kate Donadio MacQueenAdmission is FREE. $10 suggested donation to go to the ACLU. Cash preferred at the door.

1105 Euclid Ave NE

Atlanta, GA 30307

(404) 523-7647

Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison -- what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female "power-play," inspired by Shakespeare's Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator's aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding- heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause. Well, that and a semi-historically-accurate ether trip. Here's lookin' at you, America.

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ABOUT THE WEIRD SISTERS THEATRE PROJECT

Founded in 2012, the Weird Sisters Theatre Project creates theatre by women, for everyone, and is committed to cultivating opportunities for female artists, both onstage and off. Founded by Kelly Criss, Veronika Duerr, Jaclyn Hofmann, Tiffany Porter, and Megan Rose-Houchins, the Project now lives on with a new team of Sisters. Shelli Delgado, Kate Donadio MacQueen, Rachel Frawley, Julie Skrzypek, and Rebekah Suellau have taken up the torch and continue to build on the foundation of mentorship and opportunity for female voices in Atlanta.

ABOUT SYNCHRONICITY THEATRE

Synchronicity Theatre, led by Producing Artistic Director Rachel May and Managing Director & Artistic Associate Lee Nowell, produces smart, gutsy, high quality theatre that sparks community connections and uplifts the voices of women and girls. Synchronicity supports women artists, forges long-term and effective community partnerships and develops new work. Synchronicity was founded in 1997 by four women with a desire to work collaboratively and bring challenging, meaningful theatre to Atlanta audiences. We now reach nearly 8,000 patrons through our season of plays for adults (Bold Voices) and families (Family Series); community outreach; and educational programming, including our Playmaking for Kids (PFK) summer camps and after school programs and our award-winning Playmaking for Girls (PFG) program. Our intimate theatre in the heart of midtown at Peachtree Pointe became our home in the summer of 2014.

ABOUT 7 STAGES

Since 1979, 7 Stages Theatre has brought local, national, and international emerging artwork of social, political, and spiritual importance to Atlanta audiences. For 36 years, artists of all kinds have found 7 Stages to be a haven in the support and development of new works and methods of collaboration.